Porter township, Van Buren County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (82% naturalized citizens)
| Porter township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of Porter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3547
- Northeast: 77
- Midwest: 46
- South: 234
- West: 39
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
2 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,232
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 14
- 3 or 4: 17
- 5 to 9: 37
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 59
- 50 or more: 8
- Mobile homes: 196
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,700
Housing units in Porter township with a mortgage: 512 (25 second mortgage, 43 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 260
- Construction (15%)
- Food (8%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Porter township:
- German (36.6%)
- United States or American (24.1%)
- Irish (13.1%)
- English (6.8%)
- Italian (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (41%)
- Greece (36%)
- Germany (14%)
- Japan (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,349 (78%)
- Carpooled: 255 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 44 (3%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 68 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (48%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (2%)
2 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
97.8% of residents of Porter township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (35% speak English very well, 55% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,878- In family households: 3,395 (876 male householders, 145 female householders)
857 spouses, 1,270 children (1,135 natural, 30 adopted, 105 stepchildren), 109 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 43 other relatives, 86 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 483 (161 male householders (142 living alone)), 263 female householders (220 living alone)), 59 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 97 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 419 2-persons, 230 3-persons, 171 4-persons, 116 5-persons, 50 6-persons, 35 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 362 1-person, 59 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
465 married couples with children.
97 single-parent households (44 men, 53 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 138
| Here: | 27.7% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 15.2% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |